Crossword puzzles and clues are a reoccurring element in Rubicon. In the pilot episode, Gone In The Teeth, Tanya MacGaffin asks Will Travers for help with a crossword puzzle clue. Will solves the clue with relative ease and Tanya wonders why she even bothers with them, suggesting Will keep it. Later that day, Will checks solves some of the crossword puzzle and notices that the same hint is published across several newspapers printed that day.
Tanya MacGaffin asks Will Travers for help with a crossword puzzle.
Will Travers reaches for the crossword puzzle that Tanya MacGaffin gave him.
Will Travers begins to notice similar clues in different newspapers.
A partly solved crossword puzzle answer, similar to the crossword puzzle in the newspaper Tanya MacGaffin gave to Will Travers.
34 Down. What lucky lepidoptera larvae eat. Answer: Marsilea Quadifolia.